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Calliactis
Sign in to savethumb|Calliactis parasitica on the hermit crab [[Dardanus calidus]] Calliactis is a genus of sea anemones. Species in this genus are mutually symbiotic with hermit crabs. The anemone gets a place to live and discarded scraps of the crab's food in exchange for its help in defending the crab.
Species
Parasitic Anemone
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumCnidaria
- ClassAnthozoa
- OrderActiniaria
- FamilyHormathiidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 130
- With media
- 11
- Family
- Hormathiidae
- Collections
- CAS, USNM, NCSM, SIO, AM
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Costa Rica, United States, Northern Mariana Islands, Kiribati, India, French Polynesia, Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Hormathiidae
- Image
- Dardanus pedunculatus (Hermit crab).jpg
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- Calliactis
- taxon name
- Calliactis
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- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Calliactis
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thumb|Calliactis parasitica on the hermit crab [[Dardanus calidus]] Calliactis is a genus of sea anemones. Species in this genus are mutually symbiotic with hermit crabs. The anemone gets a place to live and discarded scraps of the crab's food in exchange for its help in defending the crab.
==Species== Species within the genus include: Calliactis algoaensis Calliactis androgyna Calliactis annulata Calliactis argentacoloratus Calliactis armillatas Calliactis brevicornis Calliactis conchicola Calliactis japonica Calliactis marmorata Calliactis parasitica Calliactis polypores Calliactis polypus Calliactis reticulata Calliactis sinensis Calliactis tricolor Calliactis valdiviae Calliactis variegata Calliactis xishaensis
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Calliactis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.